George Orwell's Shooting An Elephant

Audience Analysis The target audience for this summary and response writing exercise over George Orwell 's Shooting An Elephant would be the other individuals and the instructor of this online English Composition course. The majority of my core audience, minus the instructor, should be my fellow college students taking this course. Other than stating that the others who will be reading this piece vary in age, ethnicity, and overall life experience; I would be hard pressed to further describe my target audience. As I do not know enough of the backgrounds of my other classmates. I cannot state with any certainty what my intended audience knows about the topic of this piece. I can only assume that the reader has read the required material
We are all taking a course to improve our writing skills. In this instance, we are all writers in some form or another. We are each other 's audience for the time being, critiquing each other 's pieces. Also, giving advice and suggestions on how to improve our pieces.
My role in this assignment is that of an amateur writer. Writing is not a new experience for me, but there is always room for improvement. I am by no means an expert writer. It is my intention to convey the main idea as clearly and accurately as
Orwell was involved in said occupation. Though I would surmise he didn 't have much choice in the matter. Suffice to say, the European Imperial rule was ill-received by the Burmese people. They seemingly despised their foreign occupants. Orwell even stated that during his time as a police officer in Burma he was "hated by large numbers of people" (Orwell, 1950). "There were several thousands of them in the town and none of them seemed to have anything to do except stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans" (Orwell, 1950). Though, no matter how much he was hated by the natives, he hated who he worked for equally, for not more so. Orwell was an outcast where he was stationed, he would be harassed by all kinds of people, even ones thought to be peaceful. He stated that the worst of them were the young Buddhist priests in the area (Orwell, 1950). The overall contempt and lack of acceptance on behalf of the Burmese people affected Orwell in a profound way. The way the Burmese were treated by British Empire neglected to remedy the situation. To Orwell, "All this was perplexing and upsetting" (Orwell,